Aristomenis Tsirbas | |
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Nationality | Greek Canadian |
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, film editor, visual effects supervisor, animator |
Years active | 1995–present |
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Aristomenis (Meni) Tsirbas is a film director, producer, writer, editor, animator, concept designer, storyboard artist, and visual effects supervisor. He has directed two feature films, several national television commercials, music videos, and short films. Meni's films have received over two dozen international awards from film festivals such as Sundance,[ citation needed ] Hollywood, and Palm Springs. [1] He is president of MeniThings Productions [2]
Meni was born in Montreal, Canada where he majored in film production at Concordia University. [3] After directing commercials at his Montreal company, Trimension, Meni moved to Los Angeles in 1996 to work as a CG artist on James Cameron’s Titanic and national advertising spots for Nike, 7UP and Coca-Cola. He then rose to VFX supervisor for Miramax’s A Wrinkle in Time, Disney's My Favorite Martian and Paramount’s Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . [4]
In 1999, Tsirbas returned to directing full-time with a string of award winning short films, game cinematics, and music videos including SIGGRAPH’s Ray Tracey in Full Tilt, Microsoft’s Mech Warrior: Vengeance, Terra, and The Freak, before embarking on his first feature film, Battle for Terra .[ citation needed ]
Meni followed up with two more short films, Anthro and Exoids at DAVE School [5] and Gnomon School of Visual Effects respectively, before joining Blur Studio [6] in 2012, where he directed a dozen national American television spots for Goldfish Crackers.
In 2019 Tsirbas directed his second feature, Timescape , which was released in 2022.
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